Category Archives: Political Commentary

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Rerunning 1998?

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I think there’s a flaw in Mickey’s theory:

I’m not suggesting the White House is intentionally provoking Republicans over Benghazi, the better to produce counterproductive overreach. OK, sorry. I’m totally suggesting the White House is intentionally provoking Republicans over Benghazi. It’s not like this is something the White House hasn’t been accused of before. Remember the “birther” controversy, where Obama delayed releasing his birth certificate for years as the conservative fringe wound themselves up in greater and greater knots of paranoia? ’Look, what a bunch of crazies” was Obamas implicit message then. That may be his message again. Sure beats “The debate is over.”

The problem is that (as we were told ad infinitum by Democrat partisans), the Clinton scandal was “just about sex.” Here the lies (and continued stonewalling) are about four dead Americans, killed by administration ineptitude.

Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Demographic Death Spiral

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No, not of people this time, of businesses:

More businesses are failing now than are being created, a first for the American economy since the Carter era, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution. That has become even more true during the Obama “recovery” than during the Great Recession.

Also:

Another nugget in that Brookings paper: “older and larger businesses are doing better relative to younger and smaller ones”

The younger and smaller ones don’t have the financial resources to buy (or, actually) rent the grifters and grafters in DC.

[Update a couple minutes later]

This is probably related; how bad is the job market for 2014 grads? This bad:

Today’s crop of new B.A.s are staring at roughly 8.5 percent unemployment, 16.8 percent underemployment. Close to half of those who land work won’t immediately find a job that requires their degree, and for those stuck in that situation, there are fewer “good” jobs to go around. Welcome to adulthood, class of 2014.

A lot of them wasted borrowed money on their degrees, loans that are currently not dischargeable in bankruptcy. So they have that going for them, too.

Education, Mathematics, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

I Checked My Privilege

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“…and it’s doing just fine.”

Call: “Check your privilege!”

Response: “What you call ‘privilege’ is just me being better than you.”

They won’t like it. It will make them angry. Good. Because tactics like “Check your privilege” are designed to make us angry, to put us off-balance, to baffle us and suck us down into a rabbit hole of leftist jargon and progressive stupidity.

Don’t follow them. Mock them. Accuse them of adhering to a transphobic cisnormative paradigm and start shrieking “Hate crime!”

Don’t worry about not making sense. They’re college students. They are used to not understanding what people smarter than they are tell them.

It’s just the latest stupid thing to come from the campus loons.

[Update a few minutes later]

Link is fixed now. Sorry!